The second idea:takibg smart notes.

That is normal. But as soon as you get used to taking smart notes, it will feel so much more natural that you will wonder how you were ever able to get anything done before.

The first idea lies at the heart of this book and is the technique of the simple slip-box.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel. We

It is not about redoing what you have done before, but about changing the way of working from now on.

Another item of good news regards the amount of time and effort you have to put into getting started.

The simplicity of the structure allows complexity to build up where we want it: on the content level.

The challenge is to structure one’s workflow in a way that insight and new ideas can become the driving forces that push us forward. We do not want to make ourselves dependent on a plan that is threatened by the unexpected, like a new idea, discovery – or insight.

If you make a plan, you impose a structure on yourself; it makes you inflexible.

A good structure enables flow, the state in which you get so completely immersed in your work that you lose track of time and can just keep on going as the work becomes effortless

Having a meaningful and well-defined task beats willpower every time.

Willpower is, as far as we know today, a limited resource that depletes quickly and is also not that much up for improvement over the long term

how much self-discipline or self-control one uses to approach the tasks at hand

the single most important indicator of academic success is not to be found in people’s heads, but in the way they do their everyday work.

depends more than anything on what you have done in writing before you even made a decision on the topic. But

也许可以发现一点之后直接书写,that would be so difficult for me

that writing starts with a blank page.

namely note-taking,

the everyday note-taking that takes up the biggest chunk of our writing.